I am a recent graduate from Cal Poly's 5 year Bachelor of Architecture program with a minor in property development. For my senior design project I decided to employ my interest in digital nomadism, architecture, and product design, to reimagine how the future generation might prefer to work and live.
When COVID-19 canceled my internship, I decided to create my own opportunity for self-discovery, skill-building, and meaningful connections. I interviewed CEOs, artists, innovators, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs, many of whom have embraced unconventional career paths. These conversations became rich user research, uncovering patterns and retelling stories to inspire others entering the workforce during challenging times. Along the way, I built foundational skills in product and tech, blending career exploration with hands-on digital creation.
At Autodesk, I worked on the Digital Experience and Monetization team, focusing on driving expansion through user insights, experimentation, and cross-functional collaboration. I led research and strategy for pricing and packaging pilots, designed go-to-market tests, and partnered with engineering, design, and marketing to validate new monetization opportunities. This role deepened my understanding of product growth levers at scale and sharpened my skills in customer-centric strategy.
In my TEDx talk, I explored how non-linear career paths can lead to meaningful work by bridging disciplines like architecture, product design, and entrepreneurship. Sharing my own journey, I highlighted how embracing ambiguity and cross-pollinating skills helps us solve complex problems and create fulfilling careers.
Hurry up to Relax is an experimentation towards bringing together two seemingly incompatible things: speed and reflection. Often when we think of a place to bring about reflection we think of quiet places of solitude. What is often overlooked as a solution towards processing stress and bringing a sense of peace is kinesthetic movement and the manipulation of light. Just as people go running or take a long drive to process the day, we can use light, speed, and connection as elements for processing our everyday lives. I designed a meditative space that elicits self reflection while students are walking from class to class.
An 8 week coding crash course provided by SheCodes. Built a highly functional and responsive weather application through use of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Github, Bootstrap, and more.
Between the 90 and the 405 is an experimental narrative towards the disconnect from those who live in the city, and the homeless. The network of highways create a natural center to the city that could be utilized as a place of connection and experimentation. The exploration of this concept can be seen in my deep investigation of circulation throughout the site and implementation of biomimicry.
A 5 week design studio project, yolk is a public art foundation that amplifies the voices of black artists by displaying the works of El Enatsui and Senga Nengudi. The approach is raw, digestible, and naked. All work is done analog.